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U.S. Issues Global Alert Over al Qaeda Threat

8/2/2013 4:05PM

The U.S. issued an unusual global travel alert because of an al Qaeda terrorist threat — a day after it announced that it would shut its embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world on Sunday. WSJ's Jay Solomon reports on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.

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... the the ... the U S a she is a global terrorism all eyes will have the details and mall right here right now on the New Saab good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable ... joining us from Washington we have Wall Street John reporter Jay Solomon who has the D tells on this the ... jetty on ... it's in Mema Nova fun to get such a warning what do we know what is the government's eyeing ... by intelligence officials are saying they've seen ... increased chatter for saying of talking ... between al Qaeda ... operatives that elements in the mood in the Arabian Peninsula that was ... largely mean Yemen meaty Saudi Arabia ... and ... yet they're they're seeing concerns they may have concerns of a wider ... plot coming from that from Yemen and Saudi Arabia targeting ... U S interests throughout that region and possibly even into the ... sea Europe or elsewhere so I think ... these warnings did come out from time to time so sorry we haven't ... we have one in February well in last year's suicide ... the teeth don't happen but again there's an and an uptick ... Intel ... intelligence officials are seen appetite taken to talk and chatter between ... some these terrorist is that it's making people nervous ... I'm sure my team Cable novice lacks the meantime on the ball this time it's global I'm that that is ... the has a long period and it is over a large area basically the in the entire globe right I mean ... what else on this and the US is been making some spurts of drone strikes as well to try and calm about this he tells about that ... we've been hitting ... you know Al Qaeda elements but in Yemen and ... Pakistan for for quite awhile now I there has been an ... upsurge in ... inside Yemen ... to attack a group called al Qaeda ... um in in the reading Peninsula ... so the ego ... is this retaliation is this just part of the broader topic that's been ... going on or not totally sure that the president of Yemen was ... in Washington yesterday to meet with President Obama and ... put us in Yemeni officials say the and talk about this group called a cutie he ... was death only I on the agenda so ... yet these drone strikes are not exactly new but there has been ... more Straits in recent weeks in recent months and ... I guess part of the analysis is this is the end of the telly now or ... is is just part of the product roughly ... ten ... long months of funneling that times thank you my much David Solomon we appreciate time